A Year of Wearing Google Glass

Wired’s Mat Honan had an idea: wear Google Glass during the birth of his child. If anything, Glass would let him live in the moment while also recording the moment. (Life is a little less joyous when spent looking through a viewfinder.)

He ended up never having the chance — the timing of births can be, well, unpredictable — but that led to his next idea: spend an entire year wearing Google Glass. He documented people’s reaction (mostly hostile), his reaction (really awkward at first) and what he learned. Here’s one bit:

Glass kind of made me hate my phone — or any phone. It made me realize how much they have captured our attention. Phones separate us from our lives in all sorts of ways. Here we are together, looking at little screens, interacting (at best) with people who aren’t here. Looking at our hands instead of each other. Documenting instead of experiencing.